English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
Captain Shakespeare: And, Yvaine, I have some lovely dresses; take your pick. Yvaine: [surprised] I'm fine. Captain Shakespeare: [quietly] Honey... you're wearing a bathrobe.
William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You thieve my brains, consider me your toy, my doting doctor tells me I am not!' Lilith: No! Words of power! William Shakespeare: 'Foul Carrionite specters...
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.
Wir können uns von Shakespeare unterscheiden, durch Fehler.
During the Government’s recent overhaul of GCSEs, I was asked to join a consultative group advising on the English Literature syllabus. It quickly became clear that the minister wanted to prescribe two Shakespeare plays for every 16-year-old in the...
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
In simple words, whatever you were born to do, you were equipped to do it. You are a whole equipment for success!
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.
I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.